Manage overseas licensing for manga content by coordinating new-business sales, publisher proposals, permission documents, contract checks, and supervision of translated publications and promotional items.
About this role
The designer works in the publishing division on promotional materials for comics, books, and magazines. Responsibilities include creating designs and layouts for POP displays, posters, and bonus goods; revising and resizing existing data; responding to design changes; preparing print-ready files; creating production schedules; tracking progress; checking submission data; and coordinating with internal and external parties such as editorial teams, printing companies, and designers.
Required experience includes preparing submission data for printed materials, including print-ready artwork, crop marks, bleed, and image correction in Photoshop. The role requires practical graphic design experience and basic working skills with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop or similar tools, with at least one year of practical experience. The posting is intended for applicants with experience designing paper-based media and people who like and regularly engage with manga, books, and entertainment content.
Preferred experience includes producing promotional materials or novelty items in the publishing or entertainment industries; managing production schedules or directing production at a printing company or design office; negotiating with partner companies such as printers and external designers, including coordinating estimates; and producing promotional videos or editing video.
A portfolio is required. It should show previous design work for paper-based and printed materials, including posters, flyers, POP materials, novelty goods, or book-related items, and may be submitted as a PDF or a link to a web portfolio.
The listed employment type is contract. The work location is the Shibuya office address in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo: 1-1 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya Sakura Stage SHIBUYA Tower. The posting does not state salary, working hours, benefits, start date, remote-work arrangements, language-level requirements, or visa sponsorship.
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